YouTube to Share Revenue with Creators — YouTube CEO Chad Hurley said today his company (now owned by Google) "is going to move in [the] direction" of rewarding video creators for their content, as part of a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.

Davos07: Chad Hurley on YouTube... on YouTube — Here's Chad Hurley, founder of YouTube, in a session on — cough — user-generated content (see my post below) at the World Economic Forum in Davos. He talks about what YouTube is doing on copyright, installing the means to find violations …

Intel Says Chips Will Run Faster, Using Less Power — Intel, the world's largest chip maker, has overhauled the basic building block of the information age, paving the way for a new generation of faster and more energy-efficient processors. — Company researchers said the advance represented …

Tax Takers Send in the Spiders — Websites around the world are getting a new computerized visitor among the Googlebots and Yahoo web spiders: The taxman. A five-nation tax enforcement cartel has been quietly cracking down on suspected internet tax cheats, using a sophisticated web crawling program …

eBay Delisting All Auctions for Virtual Property — from the definition-of-what-is-real dept. — The growing popularity of Massively Multiplayer games has brought the issue of ownership rights in virtual worlds, and the appropriateness of what is called 'real money transfer' (RMT) into an increasingly public light.

Time Warner: HDTV DVRs Return — Syracuse (WSYR-TV) - Time Warner Cable in Syracuse says they have received hundreds of HDTV DVR cable boxes into their Fair Lakes Road office. Customers who were requesting the boxes earlier this week, were sent away. — Time Warner Cable spokesperson …

The joy of the hack — A reporter just called me and wanted to talk about my virus, Elk Cloner, that I wrote back in 1982, when I was in the 9th grade. Apparently it's the 25th anniversary of the virus and since I wrote the first one she wanted my thoughts. — First thought: "25 years?

Microsoft hurt by poor Live branding, analysts say — Bungled branding of the new Windows Live Internet services has hurt Microsoft and could affect its chance to play catch-up with Google, analysts said on Friday. — On Thursday, Microsoft lowered its sales forecast for its Internet services business …

Inside the Lucasfilm data center — SAN FRANCISCO—Given the cult-film status of 1971's THX 1138 in the George Lucas universe, it should come as little surprise that the total capacity of Lucasfilm's giant data center is 11.38 petabits per second. — Granted, that number …

Googlebombs Defused? — Google says they've managed to neutralize the impact of a lot of Googlebombs. — A Googlebomb is a when a group of people get together to link to a certain site with a certain set of keywords, in order to convince Google that it ought to display that site at the top …

Google Metaverse, Made in China? — The Google Metaverse meme has popped up again. Michael Eisenberg, a general partner with Benchmark Capital in Jerusalem kicked off a fresh discussion about Google building its own metaverse, a.k.a a virtual world akin to Second Life.

Copilot 2.0 supports Macs — I love my mother, which is why I gave her my old G5 iMac (the last of the G5 iMacs) but she isn't really all that tech savvy. To her credit she has gotten much better with surfing the web, and doing email but if a problem crops up on her iMac (which is rare …

White-box cell phones — At the Mobile Identity Workshop today Doc Searls led a discussion of white-box, or open phones. The problem is that, at least in the US, phones are tied to a particular carrier and have features crippled to force certain business models. Want to write software for the phone?